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A LAMENT FOR JUSTICE AND PROTECTION

Your Majesty

Today, I take this special opportunity

To thank you for the good life you have bestowed upon us.

Despite all the odds we have committed against you,

You still care for us. Thank you very much.

 

Abba Father,

You know that when you created man,

You gave peace, love and hope to him

You gave him the right and ownership of the properties

You also apportioned him land to live on

 

Through the Red Sea, the Israelites possessed the lands of Canaan

You made them conquer and own the lands as you had promised.

Reuben to Benjamin, you gave each a piece of land.

Through Secession, the same land you gave to South Sudan,

You apportioned it to the sixty-three-plus nations to live on,

 

Abba, Father

With different resources for each nation, you blessed them.

Others you gave oil, others you gave water,

Others you gave animals and others lands for agriculture,

While others doubled their blessings, only known to your sovereignty.

 

Abba Father,

I stand in the gap with my head down on my knees

Like dry seasoned grains, ready for harvest into the barns.

We are bleeding in pain from helplessness

Monsters are trampling upon the smallest land.

 

Look Father,

You have settled us with peace, where you wanted us to stay.

You gave us hands and minds to use the available resources

To develop and grow peacefully.

You gave us hearts of humility, hospitality,

Meant to coexist with others and nature harmoniously.

 

Listen God

We are being hunted and haunted by monsters

Monsters, you too gave places, abundant livestock and fertile lands

Far richer than we are, but hell rains through them

They have become idiots against their fellows

Breaking our smallest and poorest hope.  

 

Oh God,

What sins have we committed?

That shuts your eyes and ears from hearing

Is there no faithful one to answer his cry?  

Why do your people deserve the silence?

Are there no faithful enough to turn down your anger? Please hear our cries.

 

Almighty Father

We ask that your WILL be done today     

Pass down your judgment on the lands,

Send your hailstorms and strike the plague, for your glory

Let the people know your sovereignty

And if there be betrayers amongst the people,

Let your fire consume them

 

Our Father God,

We have seen your powers working through your divinity

We believe you have not travelled too far to answer others

We believed your eyes and ears are alive, but not counting our sins.

Please, do not turn your back towards this heavy request

Please help us out of a tragedy that has befallen our lands

All these we cry today and believe

 

Ayella

Ref: Psalm 13, 22, 88

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